Research Links

Below are links to various research papers I've come across over the last couple of years.  I've cited most of them, but that's not a criterion for getting on the list.  The only criterion, really, is that the paper relate to urban issues and that it appear to be sound research. 

Some day I'll do something useful like write a summary for each. 

Land use regulations in general

• Pendall, Puentes & Martin, From Traditional to Reformed:  A Review of the Land Use Regulations in the Nation's 50 Largest Metropolitan Areas (Aug. 2006) (pdf)
• Gyourko, Saiz & Summers, A New Measure of the Local Regulatory Environment for Housing Markets:  The Wharton Residential Land Use Regulatory Index (March 2007) (pdf)

The impact of land-use controls on home prices

• Davis & Palumbo, The Price of Residential Land in Large U.S. Cities (May 2006)
• Eischer, Municipal and Statewide Land Use Regulations and Housing Prices Across 250 Major US Cites (Jan. 2008)
• Glaeser & Gyourki, Zoning's Steep Price (2002)
• Glaeser, Gyourko & Saks, Why Is Manhattan So Expensive? Regulation and the Rise in House Prices (Aug. 2004)
• Glaeser, Gyourko & Saks, Why have housing prices gone up? (Dec. 2004)
• Glaeser & Ward, The Causes and Consequences of Land Use Regulation: Evidence from Greater Boston (Oct. 2006)
• Isakson, Analysis of the Effects of Large Lot Zoning (2004) (pdf)
• Malpezzi, Housing Prices, Externalities, and Regulation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas (1996)
• Nelson, et al., The Link Between Growth Management and Housing Affordability: The Academic Evidence (Feb. 2002)
• Quigley & Raphael, Regulation and the High Cost of Housing in California (Nov. 2004)
• Quigley & Raphael, The Effects of Land Use Regulation on the Price of Housing: What Do We Know? What Can We Learn? (2005)
• Somerville & Mayer, Government Regulation and Change in the Affordable Housing Stock (June 2003)
• U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Dev., "Why Not In Our Community?" Removing Barriers to Affordable Housing (Feb. 2005)
• Vatter, The Cause and Effect of Exclusionary Zoning Within a Jurisdiction (July 2006) (pdf)

Affordable housing

• Feldman, The Affordable Housing Shortage: Considering the Problem, Causes and Solutions (Aug. 2002)
• Katz, et al., Rethinking Local Affordable Housing Strategies: Lessons from 70 Years of Policy and Practice (Dec. 2003)
• Susin, Rent Vouchers and the Price of Low-Income Housing (1999)

Housing market dynamics

• Dye & McMillen, Teardowns and land values in the Chicago metropolitan area (July 2006) (pdf)
• Glaeser & Gyourko, Urban Decline and Durable Housing (Aug. 2004)
• Glaeser, Gyourko & Saks, Urban Growth and Housing Supply (Feb. 2005)
• Somerville & Holmes, Dynamics of the Affordable Housing Stock: Microdata Analysis of Filtering (2001)

Urban economics

• Glaeser, The Economic Approach to Cities (Feb. 2007)

The spatial structure of cities

• Bertaud & Malpezzi, The Spatial Distribution of Population in 48 World Cities:  Implications for Economies in Transition (Dec. 2003) (pdf)
• Bertaud, The Spatial Organization of Cities: Deliberate Outcome or Unforeseen Consequence? (2004) (pdf)
• Bettencourt, et al., Growth, innovation, scaling and the pace of life in cities (April 2007) (pdf)

Sprawl and its causes

• Lewyn, Suburban Sprawl:  Not Just an Environmental Issue (2000) (pdf)
• Lewyn, How Overregulation Creates Sprawl (Even in a City without Zoning) (2005) (pdf)

The costs of sprawl

• Congressional Budget Office, Effects of Gasoline Prices on Driving Behavior and Vehicle Markets (Jan. 2008)